Jean-Baptiste Carrier

Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756-16 December 1794) was a French politician of the French Revolution, known for his cruelty against priests and the Vendeans.

Biography
Jean-Baptiste Carrier was born in 1756 in Yolet, Auvergne, in the Kingdom of France. His family cultivated the land of a French nobleman, scraping money from that job. In 1785 he joined the National Guard and joined the Jacobin Club. He became a member of the National Convention in 1790, and Carrier took an active role in consolidating the French Revolution as a commissioner for Flanders and representative to Nantes. Carrier led the suppression of anti-revolutionaries in the Vendee region, where he massacred priests. In 1794 he was recalled to Paris, and in July, the Thermidorian Reaction overthrew the Jacobins. Carrier was executed by guillotine on 16 December 1794 as the Jacobins were wiped out.